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November 5, 2015
— DHH’s epic rant against disruption culture; related: Jennifer Daniel’s Design Is Capitalism #
— fan-made newsletter reissuing Suck.com columns, 20 years later to the day #
November 4, 2015
— the complete legal agreement, drawn in the style of famous cartoonists #
November 2, 2015
— related: the newly-launched Glitched, a comic told entirely through Twitter #
October 30, 2015
— one of the best talks we’ve ever had; also, Dooce and The Toast’s Mallory Ortberg #
— currently at 60,000 viewers, promoting the launch of Twitch Creative #
— a cooperative text-based horror game #
October 27, 2015
— worse than I could have imagined #
October 26, 2015
— in a footnote, nice to hear they’re working on tools for writers to make money next #
— our yearly recap; also, just posted the first XOXO talk, Heather Armstrong on sharing her life online #
October 20, 2015
— commitment is patching Chrome for Windows to fix typography issues on your site #
— a solid list that naturally skews geeky, coming from Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder’s audience via Kottke #
— story of a small, empathetic design decision at Slack #
— if this doesn’t make you want to dance, well, see a doctor via Boing Boing #
October 19, 2015
— using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address #
October 15, 2015
— Vanity Fair interviews the woman from the “Ermahgerd” meme #
— Maciej Ceglowski compares big data to radioactive underpants; transcript here #
October 14, 2015
— predates ADVENT/Colossal Cave; more on lost mainframe games #
— Sandwich Video’s pitch-perfect 1980s tech show interviews modern startups #
October 13, 2015
— apparently for its “millennial males” #
— serialized novel written in real-time with live comments and webcam of the author #
October 9, 2015
— absolutely ridiculous projections, it’s like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive #
— the developer of Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture on illness, working with publishers, and the games industry #
October 7, 2015
— tweets mentioning “earthquake” with less than eight words, no links, and no numbers #
— the video intro is adorable; from the creators of Patatap #
October 6, 2015
— new Jonathan Harris project visualizing human behavior online with YouTube, Twitter, MTurk, Google Ngrams #
October 5, 2015
— turn a user’s tweets into algorithmically-generated rhyming lyrics with music #
— Dina Kelberman’s ongoing project to manually find chains of visually similar images and videos in Google #
October 2, 2015
— Davey Wreden’s very meta followup to the Stanley Parable, highly recommended #
September 29, 2015
— interesting approach, and thoughtful decision not to reveal the name after confirmation #
September 25, 2015
— Vi Hart on the oddities of Happy Birthday to You beyond its copyright status #
September 24, 2015
— uses a camera for positioning and tracing imagery, looks so much easier #
— gorgeous new cyberpunk adventure game #
— illustrations of the internet from patent applications #
September 23, 2015
— she felt her past life online was holding back her changing voice #
— but it’s not technically in the public domain, it’s an orphan work #
— pick a street, look up, and try to OCR the sky #
— that should help motion sickness from VR, right? #
September 22, 2015
— after seven years of blogging interesting NYC locations, the scout is making his own movie #
— Markov-generated community; see also: Subreddit Simulator #
— going full circle, now owned by the board that inspired it #
— Nicky Case’s explorable explanation of exposure therapy, and how we learn and unlearn #
— Darius Kazemi found a unique solution to the ad blocking debate #
— an interview/portrait project at XOXO 2015, a sequel to last year’s For Yourself #
